Lying in our sleeping bags this morning we noticed a thin layer of ice glittering inside the roof of our […]

When the Second World War broke out there were two German geologists working in Namibia who decided that they’d really […]

The more cinematically astute among you will recognise that as a line from “2001 A Space Odyssey”, though the line […]

Weeks before we set off for Namibia, I booked us places on the Living Desert Adventures tour which had rave […]

To say that downtown Swakopmund on a winter Sunday is quiet, is to suggest that the Arctic is a tad […]

I have wanted to go the Skeleton Coast for as long as I can remember. As a boy it seemed […]

Winter rolled in overnight. Our sleeping bags kept the icicles at bay but our faces were cold and Philippa and […]

Just before dawn I heard a distant lion roaring and felt pleased that we had at least HEARD one of […]

It was another cool start in Puros thanks to that sea fog – and tantalising that the Skeleton Coast is […]

We woke up to the sound of birds…lots and lots of birds all shouting at once in the sandy flood […]